Was she in this one? Somehow, I don't quite remember the girls in sororities at Michigan being quite the same, but that's been a long time ago.

My son has been dating a cheerleader at his high school who is planning on Alabama. And having seen many of her pictures, and pics of her friends, there's a lot of this stuff going on. Of course, that's a small sample set. I don't really know how many girls are into blowing air kisses and taking pics with their friends while laying on the grass and taking pics in bikinis jumping off of piers, etc. But yeah, I've seen a lot of that. Which makes the Vanderbilt video all the funnier.

It doesn't look very diverse in many ways . . . weight and size, style of dress, etc.

However, this cuts different ways. There are nine historically black fraternities and sororities. Certainly, they were undoubtedly founded as social organizations, at historically black colleges, because establishment of chapters of other fraternities and sororities on those campuses would never have happened in a million years. Racism, pure and simple.

There are challenges. When do individuals personally desire to be with others who are like them? When are individuals excluded, in both subtle and overt ways, because they don't match the parameters of another group?

I am sure that there are many individuals who would look at a sorority like this, and despise it. Never in a million years would they want to be part of it. Others would very much want to join, but would be excluded.

Sometimes, it is hard to know how much a group looks the way it looks not because of overt discrimination, but because it isn't an attractive group to those who don't fit into the majority. For instance, I have read recently that Michigan is still struggling, as a university, to increase diversity. At least on paper, this isn't what Michigan wants. They want more diversity, and are failing to achieve it.